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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418667" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love As A Landscape Painter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON a rocky peak once sat I early,<br>Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;<br>Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish texture,<br>All things round, and all above it cover'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suddenly a boy appear'd beside me,<br>Saying &quot;Friend, what meanest thou by gazing<br>On the vacant pall with such composure?<br>Hast thou lost for evermore all pleasure<br>Both in painting cunningly, and forming?&quot;<br>On the child I gazed, and thought in secret:<br>&quot;Would the boy pretend to be a master?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Wouldst thou be for ever dull and idle,&quot;<br>Said the boy, &quot;no wisdom thou'lt attain to;<br>See, I'll straightway paint for thee a figure,--<br>How to paint a beauteous figure, show thee.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he then extended his fore-finger,--<br>(Ruddy was it as a youthful rosebud)<br>Tow'rd the broad and far outstretching carpet,<br>And began to draw there with his finger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First on high a radiant sun he painted,<br>Which upon mine eyes with splendour glisten'd,<br>And he made the clouds with golden border,<br>Through the clouds he let the sunbeams enter;<br>Painted then the soft and feathery summits<br>Of the fresh and quicken'd trees, behind them<br>One by one with freedom drew the mountains;<br>Underneath he left no lack of water,<br>But the river painted so like Nature,<br>That it seem'd to glitter in the sunbeams,<br>That it seem'd against its banks to murmur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, there blossom'd flowers beside the river,<br>And bright colours gleam'd upon the meadow,<br>Gold, and green, and purple, and enamell'd,<br>All like carbuncles and emeralds seeming!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright and clear he added then the heavens,<br>And the blue-tinged mountains far and farther,<br>So that I, as though newborn, enraptured<br>Gazed on, now the painter, now the picture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then spake he: &quot;Although I have convinced thee<br>That this art I understand full surely,<br>Yet the hardest still is left to show thee.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thereupon he traced, with pointed finger,<br>And with anxious care, upon the forest,<br>At the utmost verge, where the strong sunbeams<br>From the shining ground appear'd reflected,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Traced the figure of a lovely maiden,<br>Fair in form, and clad in graceful fashion,<br>Fresh the cheeks beneath her brown locks' ambush,<br>And the cheeks possess'd the selfsame colour<br>As the finger that had served to paint them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh thou boy!&quot; exclaim'd I then, &quot;what master<br>In his school received thee as his pupil,<br>Teaching thee so truthfully and quickly<br>Wisely to begin, and well to finish?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whilst I still was speaking, lo, a zephyr<br>Softly rose, and set the tree-tops moving,<br>Curling all the wavelets on the river,<br>And the perfect maiden's veil, too, fill'd it,<br>And to make my wonderment still greater,<br>Soon the maiden set her foot in motion.<br>On she came, approaching tow'rd the station<br>Where still sat I with my arch instructor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As now all, yes, all thus moved together,--<br>Flowers, river, trees, the veil,--all moving,--<br>And the gentle foot of that most fair one,<br>Can ye think that on my rock I linger'd,<br>Like a rock, as though fast-chain'd and silent?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q>
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